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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-01-28
A Boston Boy.

Phil is only five. and just into trousers
He had begged for them SO piteously
that his mother expected some ebulli
ton of ecstasy when he got into them.
But he was absolutely silent while he
was going through the process of shed.
ding his dress and DOMINIC his new
honors. When he was fairly rugged
she looked ut him fondly and said in.
quiringly, well, Philip
Nov feel some BETTER" responded
he gravely.
He had to speak at Sunday-school
concert not long ago, and the poor little
soul was taken with stage-fright as soon
as he had made his bow before the &c.
clesiastical footlights. His lips tremb.
led, his hands shook, his voice would
not come. He had TO give it up. and he
trotted down the aisle 10 his mothers
side again, overcome with shame. Al
ter few minutes the Superintendent
called mis- name q second time Phil
pulled himself together and marched
bravely to the front But on facing all
the people his courage forsook him
again. He made a mighty effort to
speak his little piece, but his mouth and
chin quivered SO that the words could
not be said. Phil was surprised, but
beaten. He retreated to his mother
once more.
why, darling" she whispered. put
ting her arm around him, ..why didn't
you say your yersesP"
Mamma, he replied, tragically un.
conscious of any slang. II just couldn't
l mad TO give my chin rest - Boston
Record.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-01-28
Jobs In the Legislature.

The greater part of the ..jobs" are
generally held till the closing days of
the legislature. in the hope that their
dement's will be hidden in the confusion
that then reigns supreme. At such q
time good. bad, and Indifferent bills are
passed without regard to their quality,
the object being to expedite" business
as much as possible A bill of the job
berry order is much more readily passed
in one house when it has succeeded in
passing the other. In such case less
careful attention is given to it and its
very success is pleaded in its favor.
Old hands ut the business of introducing
bills know. by an instructive glance.
whether bill should 90 to the senate
first or TO the assembly. Their predic-
tons generally prove true; for they
know thoroughly the traits and inclina-
tons of the old members. and they can
presume upon the average new men,
ber's not proceeding beyond a certain
point in the transaction OF business. -
NeU Princeton Revieto.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-01-28
How Gold is shipped.

| Each key contains $4,000 in clear
gold. 1t is from the Bank of America
that most of the gold is shipped. The
shipments of gold are not generally on
the banks account At a first glance
persons might well suppose that when
the demand arises for gold to send
abroad the shipper would only have to
send in his order for his hundreds of
thousands to the sub-treasury, where
millions of specie are on deposit. But
there are sufficient reasons why this
plan will not work. The sub-treasury
can pay out its coin only 10 creditors Of
the government With the Bank of
Americas the associated banks keep on
deposit constantly an enormous sum of
gold, sometimes mounting to $40, 000,-
600. To the members of the Bank As
ISOLATION the Bank of America issues Its
own certificates against these> deposits.
redeemable on demand. So.
there is occasion for making a GOLD
shipment, the coin is prepared for that
purpose in the rear Office of the bank.
There it is bagged and kegged and
made ready for shipment
Kegs in which gold is packed
''specie kegs" as they are called-are
made Of extra hard wood. They must
have an extra hoop. Specie is not
thrown loosely into keg, nor, upon
the other hand, is it carefully wrapped
in tissue paper and piled up one coin
upon another. The key serves only as
a protection for canvas bags, into
which the gold Is placed in the ordinary
hit-and-miss fashion of pennies in a
mans pocket Into each bag go 1000,
and ten bags fill keg.
In the interests of security each keg
is treated to what is technically known
among the shippers as the ..red-taping"
process At each end of the keg, in the
projecting rim of the slaves about the
head, are bored four holes at equi-dis-
tant intervals. A piece of red tape is
run through these holes, crossing on the
head of the key, and the ends finally
meet in the center. At the point Of
meeting the tape is sealed to the kegs
head by wax bearing the stamp of the
shipper.
The average rate of insurance is
about $4,000 on a shipment of 81, 000,-
600. There are shippers who do not in
sure. Having to ship 100000 they
will give it in equal parts to half a
dozen different vessels. Il is strict
rule with some firms never to trust more
than $250,000 at time on any one
ship. A certain party furnishes all the
kegs for gold and packs them. The
man who does this is monopolist in
his way. Shippers Of large amounts
always lose few dollars by abrasion,
but not exceeding sixteen ounces on q
million-dollar shipment The only pro-
lection to be found against abrasion lies
in the shipment of gold in bars instead
of coin. Gold bars are not readily OBJ
tanned. -Boston Bulletin.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-01-28
Ensign Epps.

Ensign Epps, at the battle of Flanders,
Sowed seed OF glory and duty
That flowers and flames ia hight and beauty
Like crimson lily with heart of gold
And buried as deep as their dead command
Ensign Epps was the color-bearer--
| No matter on which side, Philip or Earl;
Their cause was the shell-his deed was the
pearl.
Scarce more than a lad, no had been a share,
That day In the widest work OF the field,
He was wounded and spent. and the fight wal
lost.
His comrades were slain, or a scattered host;
But, stainless and scratches, out Of the
| strife
| He had carried his colors safer than life.
BY the rivers brink, without weapon Oh
shield
He faced the yictors. The thick heart-mist
He dashed from his eyes, and the silk he
kissed
Ere he held 1t aloft in the setting sun,
As proudly as II the fight were won,
And he smiled when they ordered him &C
yield.
Ensign Rpps. with his broken blade.
Cut the silk from the gilded staff,
winch he poised like ~ spear TIL the charge
And hurried ut the. leader, with laugh.
Then round bis breast, Ike the scarf Of BIZ
love,
He tied the colors his heart above,
And plunged IN his armor into the tide,
And there, in his dress of honor, died.
Where are the lessons which kingllngs teachi
And what the text of your proud command
ers?
Out of the centuries, heroes reach
With the scroll of deed, with the word Of
OF one mans truth and OF all mems glory,
Like Ensign Epps at the battle of Flanders.
John Boyle O'Reilley.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-01-28
English Bread.

Henry Ward Beecher says: EN-
glishmen like their bread tough, like a
Bit of crust don't Now bread and
butter and coffee are my stronghold in
the eating line, and with them can
defy hunger. but there isn't a hotel in
all England, from Brighton ut the
north to the tip end of the Duke Of
Sutherland's estate, where they know
how to make a decent loaf Of broad or
palatable cup of coffee. The coffee in
the hotels was simply Outrageous. They
are all very kind aud would send out TO
buy the very best coffee purchasable
and do everything in their power. but it
wasn't in their power 10 make good
coffee. ] couldn't drink it was for
tunate enough 20 buy II peculiarly con-
Etructed pot in Glasgow aud also TO get
some very elegant coffee. so that every
day my wife made my coffee for me.
and the relief was much greater than I
can explain. "
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-01-28
How Cleveland Reduces his weight

The doctor does not presc- any
drugs, nor does he use the ,Eantii =
system Of dieting. He simply recon-
mends the movement cure, and his
treatment Of the President is very sunny.
II His Excellency would only admit
spectators, he might make large fort
une by charging an admission fee. 1t
would not be a very dignified performs
ance, but people would 60 long dis
lance to see the President of the whole
United States 60 through the motions
First the doctor makes him lay fiat on
his back on the floor, stiffen himself
out, with his arms down at his side.
and then raises his feet in the air with
his heels together, until his legs are at
an angle of As degrees. This is repeat
ed several times, and until one has tried
It he can not realize how difficult and
exhausting it is, for none Of the
joints in the body can be moved except
those at the hips.
The next movement is to raise the
feet In the same position and move
them around in thAair. 80 that the heels
will describe circle. This is more
difficult still. and none but accomplish
ed gymnasts can do it at the first at
tempt
The third movement is to stretch out
ON the floor, with the face down, aud
then raise the body on the hands and
toes.
After this has been tried, the patient
Is to stand on the tips of his toes and
fingers, and make motions as If he were
swimming. BY gong through this pro-
cess three times day, at first only q
few minutes. and then longer, as the
muscles of the stomach win permit it Is
claimed that fat man can reduce his
flesh with remarkable rapidity. "a
Loais Globe Democrat.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-01-28
Monkey Ansotion.

The gorilla, of Western Africa, lives
in patriarchal and polygamous families.
in which many females and their young
submit to the authority of single adult.
and the habits of the chimpanzee are
similar; but the Cynocepbdlg, most of
smaller species Of the African CONT
mont, and American monkeys, live In
considerable troops, in a kind of gem
eral sexual promiscuity. in which the
love Of the mothers for their young,
very strong while they need it in their
weakness, does not outlive their growth
out of helpless infancy. Similar habits
have been noticed among some savage
races; and traditions are preserved
among many people of a time when
family bonds did not exist But traces
OF more durable family bonds between
monkeys of the same blood seem to exist
among the chimpanzees and gorillas,
where the appearance Of particular and
exclusive affection is combined with
rivalry with the members of other fami Z
lies. Savage, in the Boston Journal of
Natural History, tells of female Chin
panzee which was observed in tree
with the male and pair of young of
different sexes. She first started to hurry
down and run into the tblcket with the
male and the young female; but, seeing
the young male left behind, she went
back for him and had taken him in her
arms when she was shot. Houzeau, in
his "Etudes" ("Studies on the Mental
Faculties Of Animals as compared with
those of Men," compares this trait with
the Indifference Eith which the SNew
Zealand mother NV W Cook take away
her son, probably forever, as she was
expressly informed. Houzeau also finds
traces of paternal affection in the pro-
lection that old anthropoid apes accord
to the members Of the polygamous
tribe Of which they are chiefs. This
kind OF affection can, however, hardly
be said to exist among all men. There
are numerous tribes in which the fathers
do not know their own children, irT
which the names pass in the fem
line. and where mans heirs are
children of his sisters. Strikins
amples Of conjugal love are sometimes
shown among homogeneous monkeys.
An incident in point is that of female
OF an American species which, tired Of
holding her young one, called up the
male TO relieve her. Another story is
that of the male in the Jardin des
Plantes which became inconsolable and
starved itself to death after its COM
panion died. -Madanse Cienence Roger
30 Popular Science Monthly.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-01-28
FARM TOPICS.
Excellent Suggestions rs to the Care Of
Horses-The Use OF Burnt Clay for
Surfacing Roads.
COMFORT FOR WORKING HORSES.

Feeding Cattle for show-The Fallacy OF
Figures = Waste OF Wool Grease
Profits of Farming.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-01-28
FEEDNe FOR BEEF or SHOW.


Many persons, even those who are ac-
customed to the show-ring, suppose
there is but one object in feeding cattle,
whether for the show.ring or for beef.
Nothing could be more fallacious. Stall
feeding is not the best manner of feed
ing for the show-ring. Neither is obese
fairness the condition which brings the
most money at the stalls OF our best
class of butchers. The animal which
carries the least fat compatible with
fullness Of muscle, well grained with
fat, brings the most money from the
consumer The fat of an animal is the
least edible part, and since tallow is no
longer used for lighting, it is the cheap
est part of the beef.
The thing to be worked for, whether
the animal is intended for the show
ring or for the butcher. is the proper
building up of the muscular frame. II
1t be heifer or young bull it becomes
especially necessary that the muscle be
fully developed, and more severe exer-
else is necessary than where beef only
is the ultimate object This. can only
be obtained through outdoor exercise.
Breeding animals must have both sun.
light and fresh air. as well as exercise,
and full exercise should be continued
during the whole breeding period.
Hence only that condition Of bloom--as
the condition of the hair is called-will
be permissible as may be accomplish
ed with full untrammeled exercise.
With the best muscular development the
most blooming coat may be produced.
Cattle win really take a more glossy
coat than the horse, all things being
equal. Yet how many judges in maxi
ing awards regard high bloom of the
coat more than the real muscular devel-
opment of the animal.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-01-28

Figuring is often fallacious. A neigh
Dor said to me, Il can't raise wheat at
a profit; must buy my -four" The
wife said, lit doesn't pay TO make our
bread, we must get it from the baker,"
Four pounds of bread costs 10 cents.
One half OF tits water. The bread thus
costs cents pound. At this rate
barrel of flour or five bushels of wheat
equals 80; $50 year is spent for bread;
$50 worth of bread could be made, and
$50 would be in pocket every year.
This is computation the other way,
and is just and right, with no fallacy,
and only hard facts about it. The same
sort of computation proves to me that |
can grow corn for Is cents bushel.
But doubt if doleful Dr. Loring could
grow it for $1.50. He is, therefore, not
a sound adviser for New England farm
ers. zstticam in Meu York Tribune.
WASTE OF WOOL GREASE.
At the Tanners Convention in Bos-
ton recently the subject of the large
amount yearly paid in England and
France for what is known as degras
grease, imported for tanners use. was
under discussion. It was stated that
the rivers of the New England and
Middle States were being annually pol
luted with 100000 pounds of wool
grease similar 10 that from which
degras is obtained. In Europe wool is
secured by the use of alkali, and the
European degras is treated and recover
ed by labor 80 cheap that we cannot
successfully compete. In view of the
fact that protests are already being
made against the fouling of streams by
this waste, and that it will become
more and more pronounced year by
year. it was advised that some cheap
means be sought for recovering this
absolutely non-drying grease. II was
suggested that it be utilized here. as in
Europe, for making soap. 1t was also
suggested that the wool be treated with
naphtha, from which the grease could
be recovered and purified. In view of
the fact that this 100000 pounds of
wool grease would be-worth from three
to five cents per pound when purified,
the matter is well worth considering.
PROFITS OF FARMING.
From table showing the compare
tive prices of various commodities
seventy years ago. as compared with
present prices, we take the following
figures:
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-01-28
THE FALLAoY OF FIGURES.

1t is easy to figure out that not one
farm product is grown with profit; one
may prove by lying statistics that 1t is q
losing business to live at all. and that
no economical man can afford to rear
family. When the interest on the
cost OF the farm. the time of the farmer,
the value Of the manure. the taxes on
the house and on the woodland, and
everything else are ali charged to the
crops, the farmer ought to be bankrupt;
nevertheless he finds a little money
always in his pockets. There is story
of mathematical captain who defeat
ed armies and gained victories by COM
putation, and farmers are ruined nova
days by crazy arithmetic, for every crop
grown is shown TO be raised at q loss.
And yet we live along and no honest
farmer gets acquainted with the sheriff
or ends his days in the poor hoass.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-01-28

Farmers who are complaining OF
"hard times" can see how the case stood
with their grandfathers. = Burlington
Free Press.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-01-28

An exchange inquiries: ssWhat has
become Of the man who doesn't drink,
smoke, chew, swear, or >betP' Most Of
him, says the Merchant Traveller. is over
e CAnada
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-01-28

Masonic lodges composed exclusively
of women are said by late Paris pub
location 70 be carried on in France
nnnaarously. and with tha completeat a
esrsnoniaL
Crystal River current., 1887-02-19
Dan Rtce's Good Forthne.

Dan Rice, the veteran cirds man,
who has had almost as mani ups and
downs as he has thrown Ab-faps id
the ring. after becoming Try poor,
has discovered that. he is h|ir to 800,
600 acres Of land in Texas aid Mexicol
This land was purchasedl over fftj
years ago for a nominal jsum by hid
father. Dan Rice Mc'Lare3 New Jer4
sey lawyer. It is but. Iecently thai
Dan. in rummaging among his father'S
papers, found the docAmdn its disclosing
this fact He Interested some gentle
men Of means in his case, went to
Texas and Mexico, and fscertained that
the title was perfect. NJ one will be-
grudge DAN Rice his good fortune. =
TEXAS Sitstn0ss
Crystal River current., 1887-02-19
Something Unfortunate.

Man Ito friend )-"Come. let US walk
down this way again"
Friend-'Why?" -
'.Don't you see. that fellow over yon-
der?"
Eyes, what of it?'
''Well. l want to meet him as often
IS possible"
81 don't understand you"
'I'll explain. You know that / am
the worst man IN the country for ow-
ing people,"
"Yes."
'.And that when owe man dodge
him."
81 believe that l have noticed that. :"
.'Well, now I've got revenge"
'.How sop
''Why. you see. that fellow over
there owes me. When see him dodge
me it tickles me nearly to death. I
have been SO hampered by mon whom
I owe that now I enjoy being owed,1
See how he gets around the cornerel
Let's walk over that way. Say. hold
on; let's go back.
whats the matterp"
''See that fellowP"
Eyes; what of it?'' 4
Nothing, only l owe him. Con
found it, man never begins tqenjoyI
himself, but that some unfotunate|
thing arises. ."-Arkansa,c 7raajler.
Crystal River current., 1887-02-19
Electric Motors on Street Cars.

GA10Ctk4O N$OsO1S ~ -
The pumber of competitors that have
lately entered fields once given over ex-
clusively to the equine family must Be
rather alarming. First it was the
steam railway, then the bicycle and
tricycle.. and now the cable and electric
railways. II matters 60 ON at this
rate, the horse will soon have nothing
to do but devote himself to lowering
the record.
The fact that the directors Of the Third
avenue surface railway are contemplate
ing the scheme of propelling their cars
by electricity is significant. 1t indi-
Gates that business men are becoming
aware Of what has been known for
sometime in scientific circles. that the
electric railway is no longer and expert
ment, but that it can compete in.
efficiency and cheapness with any other
known system of tra1 portation. That
the public generally knows SO little
about it is the result Of policy. Inven-
tors have been unwilling to make their
systems known until all the parts were
thoroughly worked out or until the de-
tails were covered by patents. They
have been suspicious, not of the public,
but of rival inventors. At the same
time, in order to perfect their systems.
it has been absolutely necessary to test
them in-actual working railways. Az
a result there ssen large number
of working sy ms of electrical trans
portation in this country and in Europe,
about which the public has heard very
little.
Most of the systems that have been
successful and satisfactorily operated
for any considerable length of time
carry the electrical current along con-
ductors laid in conduit between the
rails or along suspended conductors,
and do not draw from storage or other
batteries upon the train itself. When
the track is laid with the central con-
duit it presents much the same appear
ance as the track of cable railway.
It is understood that the Third avenue
line will use atrack of this kind.
Electric railways are running in va
rious parts Of the United States and
Europe. There is. or has been, one at
Vienna, and one at Antwerp, and
others at various places. In the Ant
werp system the motive power is de.
rived from storage batteries located
underneath the cars. One Of the cars
used in the Antwerp tests is said to be
ON its way across the Atlantic to be ex-
hibited in this city.
The action of the Third avenue rail-
way directors is to be hailed with salts
faction. The world moves, and the
prospect is that the world will hereafter
be assisted in moving by electricity. Il
there were any doubt about the success
Of the electric railway for heavy work.
with a large number of trains. the test
here at Third avenue would be =
decisive one and well worth the max
ing -New York Commercial Advertiser.
Crystal River current., 1887-02-19
HOME MAOs ELECTRloI7

FOR lame back. yheumat1sA. Kidney. liver: blood
and all nervous dise1ses o. nen ser W09es- y yesn
ssSSs: ss:! sa
BstterieS sf 70 40 Cod fese Hettenes q. cove
:'e s.es sess2 e. 1asss 1 "a fsss
Crystal River current., 1887-02-19
RUPTURE! !!

Have you heard Of the astounding reduction for
DR.J. A SHEsNkN's famous Home Trosfmens tne
operation or hindrsnce from abori No eseei q aron
sated sahas to PsTfess sIi sss N Mx send
circular Of measuronentL instrnctlon4 md Rfo49.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-15
PERSONAL.

Mr.. II. II. Brown. one of Pianos
oldest citizens, stopped over in Dallas
yesterday on his way TO IIardeman
county, where he intends planting a
large fruit orchard. Mr.. Brown made
Dallas his headquarters when he could
count the number of Inhabitants on
his fingers, aud the deer roamed ut
large where the principal business
houses now, stand.
Mrs. Scoggins and bright little
daughtcr,y Matte Belle. who have been
visiting the family of Mrs. Major
Scruggs the past month, left this morn
ing for Terrell 10 visit her mother,
from there she goes to Boston, where
her daughter is about TO finish her
musical education at thelmusical atad-
envy. aN u